Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-08-12
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.

An Artesain Bore Enters q Subterra-
mean Cavern Which Gives Out u Won
derSEa Breeze.
Ell Paso, Tex. Aug, 10-About lilo
miles east of Ell Paso, near Sierra Blanca
on the line of the Texas & Pacific rail-
road, there is a strange phenomenon
that has inst come to public notice. Tue
authority for the statements about to
be made is ex.Goy. John o. Brown, of
Tennessee, receiver of the Texas & Paoi.
hc, who visited this city o few days ago
accompanied by several officials of the
company, including Division Superin-
tendent Judy, IN whose Jurisdiction the
phenomenon is located. Gov. Brown
and superintendent Judy told the story
to one or two persons here and it has
just come to the reporters ears.
About three years q the texas &
Pacific railway company un asrtook to
sink an arteslan well q few miles below
Sierra Blanca. which is a little hamlet
95 miles east of Ell Paso. The workmen
put the pipe down about 600 feet when
suddenly an underground cavern was
struck, the drill dropping about six
feet, and a current of air rushed ups the
| pipe. Drilling ceased and the well war
abandoned, the 600 feet Of pipe re.
naming in the ground and giving a SON
neotion between the surface of the earth
and the strange subterranean cavity an
eighth of q mile beneath. The
phenomenon did not at that time attract
the attention of any one sufficiently in.
terested to investigate. Recently, how.
ever, Superintendent Judy's attention
was called to it, and his personal ex-
animation and liz quiries have developed
peculiar facts and testimony about the
wonderful we'll. Governor Brown
stopped to see 1t on his way
here. Not many people live near the
we'll, but those who do reside in the
neighborhood OF it are Thoroughly &C.
quainted with it YER since it was ab8n-
doned three years ago. The people
near by have been in the habit of gong
and sitting about the we'll in summer to
enjoy the cool, ~inyigorating air that
PUSHES mp the pipe.
One of the %strangeHt things is the fact
that the current of air Gibbs and flows
like the ocean tide. From about 10:l5
q. M, siil 1915 p. NJ, q current of ait
rnshes out OF the pipe with a sound that
resembles the sound of q locomotive
'biowing off steam J" and so loud that il
can be heard for forty or fifty yards. At
l0:l5 p. M, the overflow of air ceases and
a strong suction sets in which lasts for
the next twelve hours. This ebb and flow
continues day after day, and it has been
observed by horsemen that whenever
they get in the nsighborhood of this
we'll strong magnetic forces are felt and
sparks are given off if the horses name
is touched.
Recently o man from Sierra Blanca
was sitting close to the we'll and on
taking out his pocket-knife found a
nail which he had in his pocket clinging
to the knife. He held the knife in the
current of the air and found the magnet.
10 property was greatly increased.
Several weeks ago Supt. Judy held his
pocket knife in the current of air for four
minutes, and the knife is strongly mag
netized from the effect. The outfowing
current of air is believed to possess
remarkable curative properties. Its
efficacy is TO be tested by experiments
upon cases of paralysis and other dis
eases. The people who live near the
wonderful we'll call il the Fountain OF
Youth"